Yearly Archives: 2017

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on 3AW Breakfast with Ross Stevenson and John Burns Topics: University course completion rates; Turnbull Government’s measures to support uni students to make the right course choices 18/01/2017 7:48AM Ross Stevenson: You are familiar when it comes to tertiary education, well undergraduate degrees, of the expression ‘pathways’? John Burns: No. Ross Stevenson:…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast with Robbie Buck Topics: University course completion rates; Turnbull Government’s measures to support uni students to make the right course choices; Higher education student debt 18/01/2017 07:23AM Robbie Buck: Do you have somebody in the house or in the extended family who is a little twitchy and…

More than 60 students from across Australia will converge on Macquarie University in Sydney today to kick off an advanced digital technology summer school backed by the Turnbull Government. Federal Member for Gilmore Ann Sudmalis representing the Education and Training Minister for the launch said the digIT summer schools would receive $1 million through the…

Tens of thousands of Australian preschoolers will try their hand at languages this year as the Turnbull Government rolls out its popular early learning languages program across the country. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said he expected more than 30,000 children would learn Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese or Spanish as…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio National Breakfast with Hamish Macdonald Transcript: The Turnbull Government’s child care reforms; Parliamentary travel entitlements 09/01/2017 07:37AM Hamish Macdonald: The Turnbull Government has nominated child care reform as a top priority for Parliament this year. That’s fitting considering warnings families could soon be paying up to $220 a day…

New data released today highlights early education and care fees continued to grow in the March 2016 quarter but the Turnbull Government has prevented the fee spikes of up to 14 per cent seen under Labor. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the Turnbull Government had reduced the fee increases but that it…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: The Turnbull Government’s child care reforms; Parliamentary travel entitlements; Political candidate selection processes 08/01/2017 01:30PM Simon Birmingham: One of the top priorities of the Turnbull Government in 2017 is to secure the passage of our child care reforms, because our reforms will ensure that the hardest working Australian families…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on 2GB Breakfast with Chris Smith Topics: AAT decision on Malek Fahd Islamic School funding 06/01/2017 07:15AM Chris Smith: I mentioned to you earlier the complete arrogance of Australia’s largest Islamic school after their annual funding was removed. The Federal Government announced that they would no longer provide $19 million in annual…

After almost 18 months of uncertainty for the school community, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has now affirmed my department’s decision to revoke the approval of Malek Fahd Islamic School Limited to receive Federal Government funding. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal was not satisfied that the school authority is able to satisfy the requirements of the…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Press Conference, Adelaide Topics: AAT decision on Malek Fahd Islamic School funding; Tax cuts 05/01/2017 01:00PM Simon Birmingham: I welcome the decision today of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to affirm and uphold the decision of my department to suspend funding to the Malek Fahd Islamic School Limited in New South Wales.…